World War II vocabulary

Who are the Allied Powers

• Britain, France, USA, USSR

• Germany, Italy, Japan

• Britain, France, Germany

• USSR, USA, Germany

Annex

• the way a country elects a new leader

• the way a country asks permission to enter another country

• the way a government gains control over another territory

• the way a government supports its citizens

Anti-Semitism

• the hatred of Germans

• the hatred of Jews

• the hatred of christians

• the hatred of islamics

appeasement

• The policy that gave citizens free food

• the policy that the US took prior to the war

• the policy that allowed Germany to take over Poland

• the policy that Great Britain and France agreed to Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland

Axis Powers

• Japan, USSR, France

• Japan, Germany, Italy

• Japan, Great Britain, Italy

• Japan, the Philippines, Germany

Blitzkrieg

• gas warfare

• Japanese suicidal pilots

• Navajo secret coding

• German lightning warfare

Bracero Program

• US labor program that recruited Mexican farm and railroad workers

• German code talking program

• Mexican soldiers in WWII

• International peace talks

Civil Defense

• Air raid sirens

• Soldiers preparing for war

• Protective measures in the US in case of an attack

• Local organizations providing for soldiers

Code Talker

• Code based on Italian dialects for message purposes

• Code based on German for private messaging purposes

• Code based on Morse code for messaging purposes

• Code based on the Navajo language used to send secret messages

Concentration camps

• Work camps for day laborers

• prison camps used by Hitler and the Nazis to imprison enemies and 'purify' the German race.

• training camps for German soldiers

• prison camps for only prisoners of war